Nicolas Cage To Star In Another Bad-Sounding Comic Book Flick

There are a couple of things that Nicolas Cage seems to be good at - like starring in films with the word 'Man' in their titles and, um, having a surname that rhymes with the word 'disengage' - but he isn't good at everything.

For example, when was the last time any human being thought "Wow, a Nicolas Cage film! I'll pay money to see that because that's how much I love Nicolas Cage!"? A long time ago, that's when - Nicolas Cage isn't a good box office draw and we think he knows it, which leaves Nicolas Cage in the enviable situation of being able to make films about anything he wants, safe in the knowledge that nobody's going to watch them anyway. And the latest Nicolas Cage film that nobody's going to watch is a remake of comicbook The Sadhu, where Nicolas Cage will get to play a superhero in India who's torn between spiritual oath and human instinct.

It's fair to say that of all the forthcoming Nicolas Cage movies that we're not going to see, The Sadhu is the forthcoming Nicolas Cage movie that we're not going to see that we're looking forward to most, even though we're not going to see it.

It must be hard being Nicolas Cage. Even though he's had a long and varied acting career that has seen both commercial success and critical acclaim, chances are he'll only either be remembered for naming his baby after Superman or that genuinely horrible Italian accent he did in Captain Corelli's Mandolin. And that's a shame - everyone knows that Nicolas Cage should be remembered for the deranged Japanese advert where he sees some triplets and has a mental breakdown and nothing else.

Lately Nicolas Cage hasn't had the best of luck, either. The original director of The Wicker Man hated the Nicolas Cage version so much he wanted his name removed from it, the moderate success of World Trade Centre was countered by Oliver Stone's decision to leave Nicolas Cage out of the sequel and, up until recently, all Nicolas Cage had to look forward to was a film where he'd co-star with 50 Cent, the prospect of which would make most people run into the woods and never come back.

But, despite all this, Nicolas Cage can still make movies for love. Movies like the forthcoming Ghost Rider - where Nicolas Cage plays a man with fire for hair who rides motorbikes up the sides of skyscrapers - and The Sadhu, which is based on a Virgin comic written by namby-pamby mumbo-jumbo self-help spiritualist Deepak Chopra. We haven't got the foggiest what The Sadhu is about, so here's how IGN calls it:

The story follows a colonial soldier, James Jenson, who travels to India and becomes a spiritual warrior. After fleeing his unit, James sets out on a dark path of violence in an effort to avenge atrocities committed to his family. Ultimately, he adopts the ways of the Sadhu, a coded way of life that not only teaches an obscure form of martial arts but also illuminates the true nature of reality and at last teaches James the one eternal truth: the path we choose is who we are.

Yeah, not a clue.

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The Sadhu Caged By Virgin - IGN